V IllillSCII BS. F. SOHWEIER. THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. VOL. XI, via MIFFJLINTOWN , JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 23 1S94 NO. 23. , 1 r REV. DR. TALMAGE. UIK BKOOKH-S BIVIXE'S SUX. DAY SEKMOJf. Subject: "Tho Generations. Text : "One iteration p.-i.i-.eth awar, nn another generation comet a." Ecclesiastei U, 4. Aeeoriling to tho longevity of peoplo Id t"irinrti-nliirennturyhnsairenerationWn railed ICO years,, or tlfty years, or Ihlrts years. Ily common consent in our nineteenth ye,,'r"ryaS' n'''rUti0ni9 nxeJ ut twenty-Ow Ti; !nr?-Ft procession that evor moved ii ' ',rl0'V"M'n of :":1". tho creates! :" H'at -v-r mir-hed is the army of pen r.-iti.-ns In ouch c.-nonition ther nro about ,..i; iwm a-.:i,iiimh.s oi (lavs. The,. 9125 days in ea.-ri BMnPnuion march with won derful precism-,. They never break ranks. They Never - r. .nnd arms. They never piteh tents. . i:.-v u y. r luut. They nro nwr off on fur-Kti-,' .. i hey came out of the eternity past i-n-t tl-.ey tnovo on tow.ir.l tlto of.,,;... ..! ' nloi-s, clusters of richest viiitno-., n,i -f au-on.:'..n,- tear. AVith n regular tread that noorl.-rof ".louMe qui,." can hasten or flfttncle can slacken. thKr tramp is on and on and on nnd oawMe mountains crumble P.vm:mds .lie. "One Ren-ration passeth. and another veneration oomet'.i." This is n.y tw-nty.t!fth anniversary sor-mon-l.-63aiidlS;:4. It Is twenty-five years sine., I nssamed the Brooklyn T,istorate. A whoio-eneration has passed. tliroo)r,.ncra t ..lis w.i have known that wiich preceded "l,r "n. that wliich is now at the front and t ie on- comlm; on. Vo nro nt the he;5 of cur rclecrsor, and our sucocssors nt .;ir . i. -el-. Hnat a c-neration it wis that I r .,..) ns ! 0 who are now in the front r :ri:neht are d- ou'y ones competent to tell t:i"ii -w .n,.r-ition j :it now co:nin in sl'ht who o.ir ;ir -.le r-. were. liio-jrraphr can i ot t. i; it. A itoLiosnphy cannot tell it. l:i..-r i;.'i5 rrt C"n. r iily written bv special Iri.-iiNoi tli-ilepar.e I perliaps bv wife or Kon or l:iUL:ht'r 1 they only tell the (rood tiiinv. 'i he l.ior.i;.h'Ts of one of the flrst 1 r-t.!-nts of the I'a'ie 1 stafn make no ree-- 1 of tli l're-i ' it'-, ae.'onnt books, now in t ie arc;,iv.-.i .-t t ie Capitol, which I have t- '. n. teli.n m ;eie', no Jns( f(. f.atnr?1J t!ai vat tv im av-t.il.le. The biographers i. ' on-..." i !,e .'irii-S.vivt.'irlMo: the United S'-;T"S i:. v. r .leseri' e I the pcene ftat d IV wi'n ---e when tho Secretary was carr el i. -a 1 .'r.inl; fro-n the state np irt'ii'-nts to his r.'.vn home. Auto;.:o,-rar.!.v is written by the i lan lux-elf. all l no oa,, woi ro..or,i for f :i:r.- ti:ii.-s h:s own we iktiesse and moral 1 !' who ke-p diaries put down oiuy th.si-stliat r-ad well. No man or wo man that ever livel would dare to maUe full r cor I of all tho then n I xr.ir.'m . lifetime. We who saw and hear 1 much of t.o feneration marching Just nhead of in iirt far more Hhla than nny book to .les rll.9 accurately to our suecessors who . r i.r..lee, 's3.,rii were. Very mn -h lik.iour s . v s. thank you. liu nan natur? in them ery iiui -h I ke human nature in f. At our time o: life th.-y were v.-ry mu 'li like we now are. Atthetirao they were In their teens th.-y w.-re very tun 'h like vou nro in vonr teens, and at tho time they wer-j in their tw.-ntli-s they w.-r,' very mu :h liko you are in your twenties. Human nV.urc iro't an aw ful twist under a fruit treo in K len, and thou.-h the trace of God does much to striht-n thin -s every new p.-neration has tho si-ne twif-t, an I tho b une work of s:r.-iiehteiiliii;out has to t.e done over aain.1 A mother in tlie country disttlet., rxpect-J tmr the n"l:rhbnr3 nt her t-ihle on some irala nicht. ha 1 with her own bands nrranred ev-J i rvthiir in tast an i as she was a out to turn fro n it to receive her quests saw her little child I y a i. 1-nt ups-H a j.itcher all over the white cloth an 1 soil everything, an 1 tho mother lifted hi r h m 1 to slap tho child, but she su Men'y rem. .'in I. ere 1 the time wlien a littlo chil 1 h-rself, in her father's house, where they ha 1 alw ivs before be n use 1 to can 11 s, on the purchase of a lamp, which was a matter of rarity an 1 pri le, she took It In her ban Is and drop;) 1 it, crashing into piee -s, nnd look'ii'' up in h"r father's face, cip v-tini chastisement, heard only tho word, "It is a sa l loss, but never mind ; you did nut mean to do it." History repeats itjelf. Generations won lerfully alike. Amon that generation that is past, as In our own, and as It will bo In the cen-Tation following us, those who mi--ceded became the target, shot at by tlios who did not su?eeeil. In thoso times, ns tu ours, n man's bitt. re-t ene nies ki'h those whom he ha 1 hefrien le 1 and helped. Hates, jealousies and revenues were just as lively in IsdJ as in li04. Hypocrisy suiilled and looked soltrnn then as now. There was just as much aarice anions tho npplo bar r Is as now iinon; the cotton bales nnd ainon the wheelbarrows as arnon the locomotives. The tallow candles suv the same Fins that nre now foun 1 under tho eieetrio lilies. Jloruespun was just as pro-iil ns is tho mo b ra fashion p' lte. I wenty-flv-1 years yea, twenty-five cniuries have not ( han,-e 1 human nature a particle. I say this for the encouragement of thoss who think that our times monopolize all the ttt oaiinations of the a;;es. . One minute after Adam pot outside of para ilse he was just liko you, O man 1 Orni utep afc.-r Eve 1 -ft the pate s ie was just likj you, O woman ! All the faults nnd vices ara many times centenarians. Yea, the cities Ko lorn, Gomorrah, Pompeii, Hereulaneum, Heliopohs and ancient Memphis were as tiiii -h worse than our mo lern cities as yon mieht expect from the fact that the modern cities have somewhat yielded to the re pi raints of Christianity, while thoso ancient cities Wlto not limitu.1 in their abomina tions. Yen, that (feneration which passed off with in the last tweiity-ilvo years had their be reavements, their temptations, tiieir stru.- pb s, their .lis ippoii.tments, their successes, tiieir failures, th..ir pi i-lir sses an 1 their pri "s, like tars i two pcneratlons now in ft ' t. that in advance an I that following. 1 at liie twenty-M v.) years l.etwe u litij an I 1 ; 1 how mu -h th.-V f iw I II nir much they .b-covcre il How mu -h they felt! Within that time hnve been performed the miracles Df tho telephone and the phonoirraph. from the observatories other worlds have been seen to bcavo in sipht. Six Presidents o( the United States have been inaugurated. Transatlantic vovape abbreviated from ten duvs to 5'-.'. Chicago and New York, ones three (lavs apart, now onlv twenty-four hoars by" the vestibulo limited. Two a -l.lt-tional railroads have becnbuilttothePacitlo. Prance has passe 1 from monarchy to repub heauisi'.i. .M.uir of the citUs have nearly double 1 their populations. During that generation the ciiiel surviving heroes of the Civil War have pone int - the encampment ot tho prave. Tho chief physicians, attorneys, orators, merchants, have passe loft theearta or arc in retirement waitiiiT 'of transition. Other men iu editorial chairs, in pulpits, in Governors' mansions, iu lepislative, Sena torial nn 1 Congressional halls. There are not ten men or women on earth row prominent who were prominent twenty flvo years npo. The crew of this old ship of a world is nil clmnpeil. Others at the helm, others on tho "lookout," others climbing thei ratlines. Time is a doctor who, with potent nnodyne, bns put nn entiro penenition lata sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has rouphly proropued parliamant, and with leonoeiasm driven nearly all the rulers ex cept one queen from their hiph places, bo far as I o; served that generation, lor the aiost part they dl 1 their best. Ghastly ex ceptions, but fO far as I knew them they did quite well, nnd many of them gloriously well, Tiu'7 were born nt the npht time, nnd th. y die 1 nt the right time. They left the world belt, r thnn they found it. We are Indebted to them for the fact that they pre pared the way for our cominp. Eighteen hundred and ninety-four reverently nnd pTate:u!tr salulc IS.jO. "One feneration posset h "away, and another generation cometh."' There are fiithers and mothers here whorn I baptized ia their inf.mor. There is not one person in this church's board of session or trustees who was here when I came. Hera nnd there In this vast assembly is one person who heard my onenincr sermon in Brooklvn, but not more than one person in every 50il now present. Of the seventeen persons who ;: ;ve m a unanimous call when 1 came, only three, I beliove, nrs livinjr. Eut this sermon Is npt a dirge. It Is sn anthem. While this world Is appropriate ns a tern porn rv st nr. as nn eternal residence If would be n dead failure. It would be I. uu ns i. i dreadful sentence if our race wore doomed (p remajn here a thousand.,winteX9 and 4 . ' . "" w "lln"t any on-ltreor boats. I m ..in in;u;orta:sorthe Crimea ilashin-'ln'o t.i.-:-i .-i:k.o po confusion. They mora ea r.ii.M y .-it mi lniirlit n9 at mi.lnoon. T ieir "" are lull or cno 1 l.re.1 I n n.l 2... ,,ften bora in celestial !ht w?..W9t7OU,1, n0t lM nbI to "Ppreeiata he blist It needs a Rood many rouh blast. m.KWOrld '".I11 to properly eTti. hLhB.e.nperbcllmat8 of tha Kood land where it Is never too cold or too hot, too 'o n, ,7hnt,lRriD,r- nenv,,n will bo mow .o us than to those supernal beinirs who wer never tempted or Kick or bereaved or trie.) J,0 ' .f.th8 key and net it to so.ni ii. ujur Key. "Uno Kfnnra ""ifP1 anJ another generation Nothing can rob us of the .ntifotn , nncounted thousands of the (feneration Just t.iTre..00nv!rt6d-,0:nfort,,(1 on hnr. n tif n-viyeii by this church, whether w.P.r:BUt. alldinRorthe three preeed nn umiuinps in which i'ney v6ri-itp' Tt" :wo preat orpnns of the previous churches re u-1 ! ITa in 1,19 memor ible fln s. but the XlUitltudfnoiia ifinn.lt,..u.l r. j s-ere not recalled or injured The " "no P. . . mo;lnn he" to kill n halle'uinh. It Is impossible to arrest a hosanna. What a intUfaction to know that there are manv .housands in plory on whoso eternal wel are this ehurch wroupht miphtilyi Noth Ji? can undo that work. They have nscend M, the multitudes who served God in that ?eiieration. That chapter Is cloriously inde 1. lint that (feneration his left Its im pression upon this generation. A s-iiior was dylnit on ship'.oirl, anl he la id to bis m ites i "Jly hi is, I ean onlv :hink of one passapo of Scripture, 'The soul diat s.nneth. It shall die nnd that keeps 'Inplns in mv ears. Tbe soul that s'nneth. t shall 'die. " C ai't yon t'hink-oimethfni .se In the Hible to cheer me np?" Woil, I illors aro kin I, and they triel to think of lonie other passapo of Scripture with which :o console their dyinp comrade, but they onld not. One of them said: "Let us call ip the cahin boy. His mother r is a Chris tian, and I guess ho has a IJihle." Theea'-in xy was called uo, anl tho dvinp sailor isked bim If he had a lliulo. He said "Y.-s," nt he could not exactly find It, and the dy ng sailor scolded him and said, "Ain't you ishamwl of yourself not to read your Iiib'u'r'' o tho boy explored tho bottom of his trunk md brought out the Bible, and his mother? lad marked a passage that just fitted the' lying sailor's case, "The blood of Jcstn ir st. His Son, clomsJth from all sin." That he'ped the sailor to die in peace. So ne generation helps another, and pood lilnps written or said or done are repro iueed long afterwar.l. During the passing of the last generation tome peculiar events have untolJed. One lay wane resting nt Sharon Springs, X. Y think it wan In 1S70, the ynr after my s -t-lement in Itrookiyn, and while wilkingln ho p-iri of that place, I found myself asking .i.b i-iKsuun: -i wonaer it there Is nuy spec.al mission for mo to exocute in this orl-l? If there is, may GoJshowitto mel" There soon came upon me a great desire to jreaeh the posp -1 throngh the secular print ng press. I realized that the vast mnjority f people, even in Christian lands, nover inter a church, and that it would be an op portunity of usefulness infinite if that doof Jt publication wera opened. And so t recorded that prayer In a blank xok and offered the prayer day lc and day ut until the answer came, though In a way iinVrcnt from that which I had expected, 'or it came through the misrepresentation in I persecution of enemies, and I have to record it for the encouragement of all mints ers of tho gospel who are misrepres -ntod, :hat If the misrepresentation be virulent mough p.nl bitter enough and continuous nough there Is nothing that so wlden3 on3's b.-ld of usefulness as hostile attack, if vou ire really doing the Lord's work. The dg?er the lie told about m", tho blg rer the demand to sse nnd hear what I really -as doing. From one stage of sermonio publication to another the work has gone on until week by week, nnd for twenty-three rears, I have had thfl world for my au"ience, is no man ever had, an I to-day more so han at uny other timo. The syndicates in orm mo that my sermons go now to about iii.O 10,000 of people In all lands. I mention ins not In viin boast, but as a testimony to neiaeiinai uo l answers prayer. Vtoull o 1 I had better occupied the iield and been core consecrated to the work I May God 'or-ive me for luck of service In the past nnd lou'ilo and qualrup'e and quintuple rav .vork in future. In this my quarter century sermon I re jor.l the fa-t that side by sido with tne pro ;ss!on of blessings have gone a procession -t disasters. I am preaching to-day in tho fourth church building since I bupan work In :his city. My first sermon Was in the old hurch on Schermerhorn street to an nu II ence chiefly of empty seats, for tho church was almost extinguished. That church ailed nd overflowing, we built a larger church, which after two or three years disappearel In 11 ime. Then we built another church, which also in a line of fiery succession dis appeared in tho same way. Then we put up this building, and may it stan.1 for many years, a fortress of righteousuess and a lighthouse for tho storm tossed. Its pates crowded with vast assemblages long after we have csas d to frequent thorn ! Wo nave raised in this church over 51.- 030,030 for church charitable purposes dur ing the present pastorate while we have given, freo ot all expense, the gospel to hun dreds of thousands of strangers, year by yar. I record with pratitude to Got that during this generation of tw-.nty-flvj years I rjmember but two Sabbaths that I have missed service through anythin f like physical indispositions. Almost a fan itio oa t-io suV j.-ct of physical exercise, I have ma Ie the p irks with which our eity is blessed tho in 'Hus of good physical condition. A daily walk an-1 ruu In the open sir have kept nn r- a ly for work on 1 in good humor with all tluworll. I say to all young ministers of tii gospel, it Is easier to keep pool health tun to regain It when onco lost. The reason s mauy good men think the worl 1 is going to tu u is because thoir own physical con dition is on the down gr ide. No man ought to preach who has a disease! liver or an en larged spleen. There nre two things ahea 1 of us that ought to keep us cheerful in our W"rk heaven and the millennium. And now, having come up to the twenty fl tii milestone in ray pastorato, I wondet Iiojv m :ny more mibts I am to travel? Y'our co npuny has been excee liugly pleasant, O my dear people, an 1 I would like to march by your side until thegeneratioa with whom we aro now movia c abreast and step to step shall have stuck) 1 arms after the last battle. Hut the Lord knows best, an 1 we ought to be willing to stay or go. Most of you are nware that I propose at this time, between the closo of my twenty 11 'th year of pastorate and before tho begin ning of my twenty-sixth year, to bo absent or a few months iu order to take a journey arouu 1 the world. I expect to sail from San Francisco in the steamer Alameda May 31. My place here on Sabbaths will be fully oc- upied, waile on Mon-lays and every Monday I will continue to speak through the printing press iu this and other lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To make pastoral visitation among peoplo I have never seen, but to wiio:n I have ben permitted a long while to a im ulster. I want to see them in their own ei. ' s, towns nnd ueignooruoo Is. I want to V o,v .-.mat are their j.rop cxiti s. tt i it their elv isii.es au 1 what their o;ipon u iitics, nnd - -i- ar-ro my work ant get more i: 1 ipted Itess. y (to I go? For edit "allon! pnts. poses. I want to freshen my min 1 nn.1 heart by new scenes, new faces, new manners nn 1 customs. I want better to uu lersiand what Bre the wrongs to be righted nn I th- waste places to be reclaime 1. I will put all I bvira In sermons to be preached to you when I ro luru. I want to see tho Ran lwiih Islni-ls, not so mueh In th- light of mo b-rn polities as In the light of the gospel of J -sus Christ which hns transformed th"m. nnd Rimoa, and those vast realms of New Z il m I, anl Australia nnd Ceylon an 1 In li. I want tn see what Christianity has nccomplisho 1. I want to see how tho missionaries hava bcea lied about as living in luxury an 1 Idleness. I want to know whether the he athen re ligions are really as tolerable anl ns com mendable as they were represented by the.'r adherents in the parliament of religions nt Chicago. I want to see whether Moham medanism and Buddhism would be pool things for transplantation in America, as It has again and again been crguod. I want to hear the Brahmans pray. I want to tst whether the Pncitia ocean irems i !,-- jiy better than does the Atlantic. I want to i nrehiteeturo of In-lin, nn-l je Delhi and CawnDore where Chrt w.ts Wined in "the mTss-acre of His mo lern dis- . .... 1 - 1 l-l Tiir.fnrni1ir 11 n siples, nnil tne aisauie- ;-, - --- r'.:,'-iV si.-.-..inii- to see if the Taj which the Emperor Sha Jehan honor of .r1 ySSour dear hantheplnin s.ab we put above our dopariOii. l want io ara IIavelockJ!l Sir Colin Van.PD-"-wiW l- - day against Ihe sppoys. I want to see tho world from all sides. How muoh of It Is in darkness, how much of It is In light, what the Bible means by th- "ends of the earth," and get myself ready to appreciate the ex tent of the pr-v nt to be maJe to Christ as spoken of in tae Psalms, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine lnheri-tan- and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession," and so I shall be ready to celebrate in heaven the victories of Christ in more rapturous song than I could havo rendered had I never seen the heathen ihominat ions before they were conquered. And so I hope to come back refreshed, re inforced aid better equipped, and to do in ten yerrs more effectual work than I hava done in the last twenty-five. And now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary sermon, I propose to do two things first, to put a garland on the grave of the genera lion that has just pnssed oT and then to put a palm branch in the hand of the generation just now coming on the field of action, for my text is true, "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh." Oh, how many wo revere 1 and honored and loved in the last generation that quit tho earth! Tears fell at the time of their going, anl dirgs were soun led. and signals of mourn ing were put on, but neither tears nor dirga nor somber veil told the half wo felt. Their going left a vacancy In our souls that has never been filled up. We never get used to their absence. Thero are times when tho sight of something with which thoy were as sociate 1 a picture, or ii book, or a garment, or a btaff breaks us down with emotion, but we bear it simply lieoause we have to bear it. Oh, how snow while their hair got, and how the wrinkles multiplied, and the sig.it grew more dim, an I the hearing less alert, and the b-p more fr ill. an 1 one day they were gone out of tho chair by the fireside, nn l from the oiate at the meul, an 1 Irom the end of th church pew, where fTiey worshlneu with us. Oh, my soul, how we miss them But let us console each oth"r with the thought that W9 shad me.et them again in the land of salunto- tion nn l reunion. And now I twist a garland for that de parte 1 generation. It need not be costly, perhaps, just a handful of clover blossoms from the Held through which they use I to walk, or ns many violets as you could hold between the thumb nnl the forefinger, plucked out of the garden where they used to walk In the cool of the da v. P. it tlieseold tasiiioned flowers right down over the heart that never avail will ache, an I the feet fa it will never agaiu be weary, an 1 the arm that has forever ceased to toll. P.-a-e, fat her 1 Peac., mother I Everlasting peace 1 Ail that for tho generation gone But want shall we co with the palm branch? That we will put in the bnad of the generation co nia : on. Yoars Is to be the eu"r.ition for victories. Tae last and the pre -at g"ner ition have been perfecting the a-u iioiv -:, an l tae electric Ii gnr. am tue .b tr.c fore -s. To these will lie a bled trans port itloo. It will be your mission to use) all tu-s fo' -.-s. Everyihin ; is rea ly for you to march r. -.it up nnd take this world for Go 1 nnd heaven. Get your heart right by repent in -e and the p ir.louiag grace of the Lor 1 Jesus, and your mind right by elevat ing books an I pictures, an 1 your body right l y gyinnasiu u an 1 Hold exercise, and plenty of ozone and by looking as often as you c in upon tho face of mountain and of sc i. Then start I In God's name, start ' And here is tho p-ii-n branch. From conquest to conqu 'st, move right on and right up. You Hfill soon have the wnoie neiii lor yo7,T sell. Before another twenty-five years have pone, we will be out of the pu'pits. and tiie offlces, and the stores, and the factories, nn I the benevolent institutions, anl you will be at the front. Forward into the battle 1 It Go-i be for you, who can be against you? "He that Bpared not His own Son, but deliv ered Him up for us all, bow shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" And, as for us who are now at the front, having put the garland on the grave of the ) tst genuratiun, and having pur the palm -ranch in the hand of the coming genera ion, we will cheer each other in tne remain ing onsets and go Into the shining gate somewhere about the same time, and greeted t.ythe generation that has preceded us we WIU have to wait only a little wane to greet the generation that will come after us. And Will not that be glorious? Three generations fa heaven together the grandfather, tho eon and the grandson ; the grandmother, the daughter and the grand-laughter. And so s-ith wib-r range nnl keeu-r faculty we lliall realiz) the f.id si gnide.ance of the text, "On gen -ration pass jtu away, und another toner it.oa cometh." News in Brief. r thoni Lave real logs and feel. The uil, minute as it Is, has 3l),003 ettb. In Japan you buy the dress by the vei.elii. Steel rails average 13i) tons to tho liIi-; iron, 1 15. Okl-ihomi hii a sheriff namel litmnbttr. Huts an.l Xol'.b lukotn. mice aro unknown in The wor.l itii the most syllables is 'ntit (liiiarmuisui. An Englishman Uu inveate 1 dcU;j illn hi els fur boots and shoes. In South America rain frequently Fulls in torrents frcm a clear tky. A spiiler's eyes are not in his hea.l, ui iu the upper part of the tburn. A whale forty-five feet long; was re obtly captured near Beaufort, N. J. lunll countries, more marriage s alio place in Jane than any other month. Congress: adopted I ho Stars an .l -lri)HS us the nationul flag on Juno 14, 1777. Tliero are lf2" counties in tho United Stated named after tho Father if His country. -Fufanli, Ala., his a curio:-ity i:i he Eh -jie of a chicken with tbiee bilU md three eyes. A cypress ir jo 0 Id years old was re tcntly chopped down ia a monastery ;nrdcn in iliirceloua. Mrs. W. C. Whatloy. of ." oswell, ja., lias a chicken which Hatters round with only one wing. A man whoso locks aro rod has ibout ! ),)()0 hairs on his head, and ono ith fair hair lias about 110,l'U'J. In London there is ;i fur company which was established during the reign of Henry VI If. At tho beginning; of the ei.htaentU entnry peoi lo were hsnered in Oreat Britain for tho illicit manufacture of mlt. Seattle, Wash., furnishes a story of i cow that Lad been living for sorno ime with a tteel wire through her ieart. King Edward I. of England, who was dubbe I L ingshanks by his pjople. .vas very sensitive about his grout ieight. According' to llotner clothing in his ;ime was washed by being placed in wp tor and stamped until it was supposed :o be clean. Sis days rainfall without a mo ment's cessation is the unusual exper ience the peoplo of Ouachita, Ark., iiud the other week. A calf with eight legs and two tail 1 1 ill perfectly formed, xvas lately added 1 to the live stock of Ueore Itunl, u Fresh l'onds, X. J. Jfetal was first stamped and usel as i medium of barter and exchange unong the creeks and Lydians about 'illnr fllM Ti-nra II. f! Xhe street railway is a development of the tramroad which was in nse three t,rmoie8 was ,. " ." . . aimzeu m nuciem x-gp. TO HIM WHO WAIT "To him who waits" the wise oiJ taring 1 runs; Croonins it o'er while winged coow-shafti dart Athwart the gloomy light of shrouded suns, With what a thril! it vivifies my heart. Clear as a zither laughs the brook set free. Soft as a lute I hear the robin sing; Upon my ear bunds all the melody That leaps from out the lyric Hps of fipnnj. Clinton Scoilar ', in Youth's Companion, A TALE UP A BROOM. t j t . UNT KITTl ff I JUsH ttc3, with the I I broom in her band, I yjSa at the parlor door. A fit. of Eener ous activity so z.' J me. "O, Aunt Kitty, rlo let me sweep. You don't know how beautifully 1 can 'fix up'a'roora. -i Besides, I am dying for want of exercise." Aunt Kitty looked as if struck by a mall torpedo. "Dear aunt, have you sot heard of Hercules's sweeping the Augean st-tVui in one dayt They contained thr-a thou sand head of cattle, whic 1 hain't had any clean straw for tj.rty years. Well, I dare say he began with his mother's parlor, and trained his muscles th is." caught the broom and performed a scries of fq mnast'cj, throwin it back of my head, and twisting my neck in and out of the loop, till the shade of the student lamp began to tremble. !y aunt yielded with many cautions. "Don't break anything, but move out the furniture, aud sweep the corners, itnd shnke the tab'e covor and tho rug; and don't lift the broom high so as to make a big dust." "Enough, mi Jam, my aunt. Tou will soon sec how accomplished in such matte-s I nm. Wait a minute. Even at tuc'i a trying time, fcitUctics must not be forgotton." I ran up stairs and reappeared with my bair done up iu a white mull fichu, fastened at tho sido with a bunch ol mipnocettc; my dress skirt pinued back, and covered with a large sproj, trimmed with red bows. "Beauty and the Broom," sail I, a? I saw my black eyes and darlt chesUs un der the soft white turban, in the Email mirror. "Grace Brown, I have seen you with less becoming surroundings. Now, aunt, exit please. The curtain rise! upon the first act." My aunt woll kne that rambling in the woods after flowers and insects was my deiight, and that I regarded house work as a necessary evil, whicii, liio duties in a custom house, let those i'nrk who might. I speat weeks in tiiis charming country home every summer, in preference to visiting any of the fash ionable resorts, simply because I had enough of fashion the rest of the year and b'-'cau.se I wa"s, with all my short ing?. Aunt Kitty's favorite niece. Father and I lived all alone; or, rather, be lived with his grain elevators. Ilu was very goo 1 to me. I nrght go anywhere I liked, or stay at home ani invite com pany. 80 I joined a ShakspeareClub to improve my mind, and took lessons in free hand drawing. Of course, I had to go a great deal to the dressmaker's, for a city gud s wardrobe takes tune and at tention. I had a dog cart and pony and I took one of the girls every pleas ant cay to drive in Central Park As for housekeeping, we had the best of servant?, and I only had to decide n nether it should be beef or mutton for cicntr. No woader Aunt Kitty regarded ium ircait as a new and startling de velopment of my character. But she left me with: "Don't sweep the dust into the hall, b it to tho he.irtj, and ' I actually kissed her and pushed tho dear soul out of the room, and shut the u..nr in her lace. Now I threw open all tho windows and blinds. A flood of beautiful sun shine cimc in. Dark rooms are an in vention of the Priuce of Darkness but then folks in the country are awfully at lac'ned to them. Never mind, I havo all out doors to live. IIow lovely those roses are this morning! I climb over tho sill to tho veranda, and pick a large bunch of Baltimore Belles, which I pia to my throat. A sparrow has her nest in that honeysu:kie vine. Oh, she is sitting, and I will not disturb her. I al l ost wish I had none for a walk. "But, Grace Brown, you shall not be tickle. You aro going to sweep this room; so climb in again. " This ftnall round table shall be the starting point. 'A ;ood beginning is work half done.' " The carpet is a modest tapestry. I will take it, one breadth at a time, narroxino; Cver the horizon of dust and dirt, t'.c hearth my radiating point, en larging the area of brightness, till all is clean when, Eater Dust Pan, and per-) form thy menial but useful office! Tho table is pretty and quaint, cov ered w ith aa embroidered cloth thr.t I worked and sent last Christmas. 0. it lie a hundsomo piece of coral under plus?, some rare and beautiful shells, and aa illustrated book, 'Poems of thr Sia." Well do I know tho sad story en thrinsd here. Fifteen years ago, Arnold Wood snilcd on his last voyage. lie was Aunt Kitty's lover, and a fine seaman. But Aunt Kitty would havo no sailor for a husband, end he agreed that after ono more voyage ho had just been pro moted to bo second mate bo would titt'c down to farming. She could not bear that bo should go, but ho was jubilant. New lands to tee raro and pretty thing3 lo biin:; back to tho prettiest bride ia town it was but right that ho should have ouo moro tasto of tho wild, free lire; nad sadly sha let hint go. For tevtiul weeks letters caino regularly.' The last was from Calcutta. No one ever beard of that ship again. - As months' rs.-st.il, Aunt Kitty gicw pale and silent,) with a nidful look oa her face. Peoplo' stopped talking when she went by, and said under their breath, -"Poor things 1" At last sue took to her bed with a slow fever. That's what they always call theso brol.en b-art troubles. But she had a strong p'lVii -jua. nnd did not die, as leer.'.e.l li-.ciy. !iut after weeks of illness took u,i t.u b irdca of her life again. Well for her, perhap3, that her father was growing too old to look after the farm, and, as he died soon with a stroke of a )o,lexv, she assumed entire control of the business. Then her mother grew le;'jle, and they cared for her like aa tefant. She could only, help herself a fin- , . - little by roiling her cuiir about. Oa , -.u. ua, JO enjojeu uiuug oa u I veranda, but that was the only change sno Knew till she too the la?t loni areaaiul jjurney. Aunt Kittys success as a farmer is wonderlul. The men obey her, or else they go. Her cibbigsi are the finest, and her chickens the tat-' test in the neighborhood. She wagct relentless persecution upon worms and insects, and it see.ns as if the things 1 didn't dare to try to est her cucumber ' plants. If the curculio attacks one ol her plum trees, she cuts the tree down before the others sufer. "3?tter one ,dead tree than a lot o.'s oi.'.y 0333," she says. With aa eye, perha--, t Aunt , Kittys SA-clling ba-iK accjuu-, a very I 11. c j man asked her to marry him. She replied that her life was, Indeed, for any who neeuc 1 her, but for no husband. ; Her heart, she said, lay at the batto.n of I the ocean. I Ia the table is a s.ui'l drawer wa'ch I ought to open and duit. Ah I the ! only thing here is a paiate 1 am'iro I type of Arnold in a blue velvet case. I I take it reverootiy from its to' , of tissue piper and opea it. O3 I the Inside cover is pinnel a curl of ru l , dy brown hair. It 11 a boyish face, I laughing, pure ani sweet. Till the last he must have bounded over the crests ot I life's ways happy, fearlei3. If only they could have been married, and had their pretty children about them I But, Grace Brown, I thought you were swesping! I push back the ura-ver, move the table, aad ply my brojia with vigor. Here are gome dry leaves and Cowers, dropped ia the shadow of tho door. They are botanical specimens which the doctor and I were studying last night. We found a purple Gerardia, yellow Trefoil and Polygala along tho roadside oa our drive. We examined them through the doctor's big microscope. That Polygala was hard studying, and there he sat, enjoyin my pat ;tng with his needles, tryiu to count stamsns and cells too small almost to bo seea with the microscope. He would not help ono bit, and I felt moro and more stupid. He says I will make a fair botanist if I persevere. The doc tor knows everything about plants. u... !.-.. v k- 1 a r ,1:- pease .arsaparilla, and all his other vege- Jable stu3s. Botanical names d so dignify medicines 1 No v I should hits to get well of a fever oa Monkshood or oae of the Deadly Nightshades. Bat call them Acoaitum aad Belladonna and I shouldn't mind ia tho least. Out hero, where I have a few companions, the doc - torisverva-reeable. H3 berran uraette. iniu Nsw York, but it was up-hill worlc- Si when ths. old nhvslninn nf ibis p'.acs wanted to ratire, aad invited .his young doctor to taki his practice, as was glad to comi. Some ot his pa tieats live oS quite a distance, and he lays I may as well eajiy t!i3 ride with him oa tinj days. H-3 calls, qiite ua prot'essionally, of course, oa Auat Kitty very of tea. Bat ci:n9 11 y little dried- up Gararaia, you aad ths re;t must 1 nare a cjiuoija late aa i go u tu? dust- heap. a. lew watta na.rs aro caught on the broom. I take oao gently o3 and draw it through my fingers. Aunt Kitty's hair turns! whito ia ths fever. I love waita hairs. Tho mixsd stage suggests the struggle betweea ' youth aad age; but the hair softeaed I aad whitened at last means the triumph ' of wisdom, purity and peace over irrita- I bility, passion, vanity, ambition and ' those other tempestuous attributes of youth and middle age. I cannot assocl- ' ate wn.te na.r wun any out ftooa peipie i.waraintMaiattaunaiBj. ine carlt b;t of fumitur, has tobatrais bad ought to use dyes and keep thoir teJ ,aborio.Jliy fro oae of the set locks, line their heart?, a dirty yellow- I ,orU to its destination. bIk . , i That tho 70,003 inhabitants of Icsla id I have crrne to the what-not, and I ' lro poor g003 w,thou; saving. There is egard it with dismay. What not, in- Uttlo or a0 homa mirkct for everr ioa. deed! Heaps of knick-knack, shells, ,ander ha, tha ganl;j rJaULta t0 ge!l al vases, daguerrotypes. picture cirds, his ,hbor Money circulation is s nail boxes, aiall c.una urures, all waiting to w,a til0 tarm bart,rj a certai nilni,,. be dusted. Oa the top shelf peicock feathers and dried grass wave from aa antique vase. Hero is my mother's pic turo in a small frame made of pine cones. There ara ba'r flowers under a glass. Dj let us look nt these ancient daguerro typo?. This is "Jade Amos, more sol emn even than his portrait. That is father s cousin behastiaa who lives la something Christmas. him, but rare and protty every I have never seen ho thought a great deal of mother, who died when 1 was lour years old. It 13 for her sake, I suppose, that he sends mo things, ncre is a group of my own ccusins, five light-haired, pretty, delicate children. Only one lives now. Their mother died of consumption, leaving a baby three months old. Uncle John, brother of my father's and Aunt Kitty's, knew a Massachusetts girl, strong nad sweet-tempered, who was teaching school. He went to her and said: "You were my wife's best friend. Her children have her constitution. You know their doom. Come and make their short lives happy. She would be pleased. I will give you money aad a ho ne. All ycur wants shall be gratified. And for the care jou give my children our grati tudo will be your recompense." . She went, and took up her task, de termined to conquer thoso fatal seeds of death hic-i were ,tao mother s heritage . Sho struggled, and did indeed give them happiness -but sho could not give them I 5.V- a,Wul fMt ero.dlUr' is! They lived from s t.eoa to twenty ' years, then one by one tuey drooped r.n ) died. A'l but one died in her Rrms. 1 Hb. ulnirnlnrTt, -senne.i. A a . fnrlnr hope, he was sent as common seaman on a sailing vessel. Being weak and un. used to climbing, he fell to the deck and broke his hip. He was taken to tha hospital, where he lay for a year, his wouad suppurating aad refusing to Leal. When he did recover he walked with a crutch, but tho blood taint wa3 gone, and his lungs were sound. He marrlc d and lives in St. Louis. Here is a photo, graph of Charley, junior, a mischievous, sturdy-looking three-year-old, booked for a long life, Oa ono shelf is a curiously carved cup which Cousin Charles did in the hospital. It was oae of his ways of passing the time. When all my poor cousins were laid ia Greenwood, my uncle looked at the . ,j i.ut-. . i lady who had stient the be3t part of her - r liro in his children s sic x room, and saw ; that she was old before her time. Too ' late ihe ibegaa to value her We,.adho?ed ln 185a Xa confcIIt fa, ZlX St V fC ,tolreVioaBnunb6x, its lid incrusted with her lost youth and energy. He took hrm,ant. an(1 vaU.,.a ... fmne her traveling; physicians sit her; but ia ' spiteofall sue graduilly settled mto a quaint melancholy. She preferred to stay ia darkened room, aad moves noisjlessly about as if she were tending the sic!r u there a ner70U3 T;tal force whicQ tho,e who ar ,U draw froal fJOS9 who care for themt It seems so la Aunt Miry's case. She may jet recover. Iy friend the doctor has seen her and gives hope; but it will take time. The door suddenly opens. "My8tarsl what a picture!" says a vo.ee in dismay. This was the picture: Cl.airs and tables were moved into tin middle of the room. Flies and dust di vided the airy spaces between them. The . former, joyously swarming ana buzz nir, , showed absoluto delight over such an unprecedented invitation as this to Auat Kitty's best room. The what-not was partly dismantled. Peacock feathers and dried grasses lay oa the floor amoag a doz;a or two daguerreotypes. I, Miss Brown, sat in the midst, while my broo n lay on the centre table, dangerously neat the student lamp. Tde dust-paa repose i upon the mantelpiece between Aunt Kitty's Hoyal Worcester vases. No won der my aunt was in a state of muid. He: words came in little gasp3: "Child alive I Did I ever sec since I was born! I was an idiot yes, I was to think jou cauld sweep a room. 1 You are all right to tell the ni ne of a Sower or a butterfly, but if you are fit for a single thing about a house, Grac? Brown, I haven't found it out!' I heard a smothered laugh in the hall, and looking up fro-n my confusion, saw ' oh, heavens aid cart it the doctor's eyes twinkling with amusement, while his face was re I wica supprjsseX rnir.il. , "My horsa aa I buy aro here, at your service, 31m Brown." (Why didn't I hear him drive up?) "I ara going aftet some pitc.er-plant aad sun , dew, and you may like to gather soma specimen'. Since the pitchor-plaut - i;rows in a swamp, you might put oa your rubber j. Otherwise , your present ( costutno Is apprDpriate. as Veil as charm - After the ride : Tae doctor, thatJsHenfy, Says I must assuse the direction of his house. hold affairs. Ho will be perfectly dis consolate if I don't. .. He wants me tg be married with lots of white, soft ."sto 3 about my head I will pucks up tho veil a little, just to humor htm with I - I. 1 - J IT. roscuuus cverjwuerc oa my uress. ji-j , wi Picture of taat half-swept -'ni, the flies the dust, my33lf a poor , "V1.0' tb.eutlfu,1 c.j!Prlt seateii n the flo J i Wila ""?33 a11 ajout me, my irate aunt, wd the broom, was ono ia which lights lad 8?aaf3 wor9 exquisitely blended, aud , sn that he caa cer for.et' . .. , ' " wa a. 800? ln3 Fldue- aa wo ,d'a aot once think of the pitcher-plant; but , ".T" Ter.8WCet V ,i " m'JC such a sploadid fellow as my Henry. And as I am to live hero all the time, I can get specimen any day. Meanwhile, I will humbly petition Aunt Kitty to give me lessons ia housekeep ing. Romance. Why Icelanders Em-igrat?. The interior of Iceland is a bowling wate of saad aad ice, traversed bj dartiag glacial rivers, and utterly in- I 3 O capable of supporting scattered inhabitants. more tha a a Ie v Grass is the oui . soasidcrable crop. The hills and th t valleys are treeless aad aiord at best b 1. scanty pasturage for horses, cows aa I sheep. Roads aad bridges scarcely et ist. The backs of horjes are the only means ot transportatioa across country. Small boats carry traveleta over dangerous rivers, while the horses s.vi.u on ahead. Hardly anything that minis ters to comfort, to say nothing of luxury, is produced in Iceland. Every nail ia aa Iceland house, every pane of glass, every bit of woodea flooring, every insign.fi of horszs or sheep or rolls of dried fin or bales ot hay for a supply of grocstiei and other necessaries of life. Nu York Advertiser. Terrors of tho Awful Fans?. We usually talk about the weathct when there isn't anything else to talk about. This fact may tend to rob ths . subject of its importance, yet it should not. Ia fact it ought to be greatly in 1 it favor, as it is ever readv and efS-tient ia breaking the "awful pause." Hive . vou ever been overtaken bv th f juu ever ucsu uvciuiku uv mo biwui .. 1 ... 1 U i I f .. I pause? Fortunate, indeed, if you have not, and entitled to heartiest sympathy if. you have. It is truly awful, especially If courtesy demands that you should break it. It settles upoa the best ru,'u lated Companies like a nigh.tmi.i-e, aaJ seems, to paralyzo the tongue and put thought to flight. No one caa think of anything to say, or fears to attempt to ay it.kThen,if.eVer, a fool is welcoms, because he doesn't think before h: sneaks. Pittsburg Coaimorcial Giz;tto. Honored In Many Lands. Upon one of the sofas of the senate chamber the other day sat an inter esting figure. The slender form was bent with the weight of years and the old face was lined with the cares l,f 1 nn. 1 i fn l.nl 1 1, 1 w-..- ... .... broad and pSwerful and the eye as ,, , ii(T, c f . i. J h Krancl9 bor , , th savior of more lives, according io the Washington Fost, than any one man g;nce the ,nVcntion of irunn .wder t '"-li ucuue. It was not until r-r-h IflfiT tnit . I tardy recognition, passed a resolution thanking him for his "lifc-bng se. v I Ice to humanity and to his country." For the life boat grew from his brain, as did the life car and other devi. cs for rescuing those who go down to , the sea in ships. Dy the first use of , the life car alone 200 passenge s out ' of 201 were saved from the emigrant i Bhip Ayrshire, wrecked off the Jersey coast in a wlntor storm of 185a The (odd man lost his life through pe sist ing iu banging to the car while his family we:c inside. For these and t other benefits Mr. Francis received the recognition of nearly evey c. owned head of .Europe, and his in- IICUIIUU3 uaio uccu uuuzcu uy every I. ... . , ' J lelvlllea rotintrw Ha vqq tnrtrfn -i i.jv.- . .j. c. c. i i? 'fA1,! ,i,a?" Tha nnnnrA-cinr.oi ii ' ... , ,lve him the r.ght to the floo.- of holIi ,..,. hlm atT,, medal of honor. VJLU PARSNIPS AND COWBANE. k ST as the tetter, th Hemlock oi trra'es, Thit Fa'.ao-ie.i thi Klt c-l.l'tr-n. A press dispatch recently stated .Ii at tho four children of John Kelly, if Fayetteville, Onondaga County, WILD PAIISXI1. N. Y., were joisoned by eating will parsnip. Two, aged 11 and 9, died. A rcpt.rter of the New York Sun showed the dspatch to Frof. N. L. Britton, of the department of botany, Columbia Cullcre, a tuan who knows the family history of every growing plant and converses fluently in the lauguage of Mowers. He said: "There have been authorities who held that wild parsnips were mildly poisonous, but ihe latest writers say that no ill effects follow eating them. The cultivated parsnip is cal'cd p-rstinaca salira in scientific nomen clature, and the wild parsnip that grows in the field is in this country : the cultivated parsnip run wild, and bears the same name. Wild parsnips are not indigenous to this country. "The i-lant that sometimes poi ons men r.n I cattle, and that is errone ous! v called wild parsnip, Is the water hemloi'L: fir rnwluino nr in trlv If. Ita ' Latin nime, ciouta maculata. A close comparison of the two plants shows that nobody need mistake one for the other if he is careful, although a TP WATEH IIEMLOCK. child would be very apt to make such a mistake. The pastinaca has yellow flowers, the cicuta white. The fruit of the pastinaca is larger and Hatter than tuat of the cicuta. The fru.t of both plants is a small pod contain- Ing two Mi! ds and these iiods hung in ' heavy dusters. " T110 accompanying drawings arc made by Fraf. Hritton, and show at a glance the dilTeren e between the two plants, lie says that the fatal hemlock that Socrates drank ly t rder of the court at Athens was dis tilled from a plant very nearly re lated to the cicuta maculata. A TERRIBLE REVENGE. Iinallpoi-Inferte.l Blankets Destroyed ror ot Indians. fan Antonia (Tex.) correspondent ' in tho (;io!.e-remocrat: John Fer- ' ris, the veteran stage driver, who in ' the early ;0s drove the stage on the ! overland loutc between dndepend-i ence, Mo , aud Santa Fe, was relat- i ing somi; of his interesting exper- ' iences to a group of friends the ' nlllnl-iv u.-Kmi h,n t..1.1 n u- I circumstances of which will be re-1 ailed by many of the pioneer ciui- icns of St. I.ouis and the Western country. The smallpox outbreak among the Comanche Indians in the year of 1 855, " sad he, "caused a stir througout tho Western country. I carried the first news of that devas tating plagce to the outside world. I was making one of my regular tilps from Santa Fe to Independence, when I stopped at a small trading post situated on the Neosho River. I'here was great excitement among the few white settlers at the post, ind when I Inquired the cause of the rommotion I was told that smallpox had been raging for several weeks among the Indians who thickly pop ulated that section. I was taken to the place where the dead red-skins a d been burled, and there were hundreds of newly formed mounds, :ach of which represented a victim Df the scourge. "Smallpox had up to that time been an unknown disease anion"? these Indians, and the outbreak was the result of one of the most terrible schemes ot revenge I have ever seen ccorcled. In the spring of 1885 two roungmen of wealthy families, whose nanu s I have now forgotten, went jut from St Louis to the plains foi :be purpose or spending a few months, the object of the trip being for the benefit of one of the young men's health. They reached Council 3rove safely and decided to remain there a short time. They decided :o get a taste of the sport of hunting iiuilalo, which at that timo came within twenty or thirty miles of Council Grove in large numbers. Ac cordingly they left Council Grove one morning early on a two week's hunt They were mounted on good horses, which sjon attracted the covetous yes of strangling bands of Indians whom they met On the third day tfter the. young men left Council irove they came upon a large herd buffalo, and they had aa exciting ;hase. The invalid young man tilled one of the animals and had lismount d to view his prize when a 'jig, strapping Indian rode out ot a :luinp cf cottor.wood trees, and wlth jut warning shot the white man down and then proceeded to take his ira'p. The companion of the mur dered man witnessed the horrible :rime and thinking that a similar late awaited him if he tarried ia that section, put srurs to his horse ind headed in the direction of Coun a 1 Grove. Ho was closely pursued by the blood-thirsty Indian, who had exchanged bis mount for that of the man he had just killed. After a Hard and long rile the white man jscaped and reached Council Grove In aa exhausted condition. A part .) 1 was at one; organ. zea to go out sn! br.ng in the remains of the mur dered man, and it was led lo tiio 1 V ll?e slrvl.T?r' The ho.lr was found to be horribly mutilated, and it had been stnppsd of every i;t ticle of raiment. The companion of the murdered man vowed that lis would have revenue upon the whole tribe of Indians for the foul deed which one ol the members had com mitted, and he kept his vow. "He returned to St. Louis, and when he arrived in that city ho learned that the hospital there con tained a number of cases of smallpox, iie made the acquaintance of one o the attendants ot the luis; ital, and induced the latter to se'l hi. 11 a num ber of blankets wiii.;b had been used to cover the smallpox patients. lie then boxed tnese blankets up fecurj Iv and shipped them to Council drove, fie went out and y ersonally distributed the infected blankets among the Indians Kratis, and re ceived much praise from the Indians and people generally for his phiian throphy. When the necessary time had elapsed after receiving the blankets there was a general out break of smallpox among the In li nns. The disease spread rapidly and they died bv the score. As sno 1 as an Indian would feel the fever which attends the diseaso coming on he would make a bee-line for the Neo sho Ilivcr, into which be would plunge. 1 f c would die in a slmrr. time after getting out of the water." A Thirty-four Year Old Letter. "It Is an exceedingly rare thins nowadays in any civilized country for a letter, properly stamped, sealed and addressed, to fail to reach its destination," said a Coveitiment nffiehiL Sniiiot irnec let fere urn written which are never received, but the great numlcr of letters which go to the dead letter officer he- cause they aro nut properly ad- I dressed, or not addressed at all. servo to explain me greater p:iri o. ine-e rare disappearances. Miw ant. lien, however, some one somewhere ',. this country is astonished to receive a let ter that was written and posted years be'ore. Not long ago a lady in Vermont received a letter which was written and bore evidence of having been mailed in istio. The stamp 011 the letter was ol soU-te, but the 1 ost oilice department forwarded it to its destination, as the stamp was good at the time it was first mailed. Where the letter had been all these years was never explained, but it may be surmised that it had slipped into some crack or c:cvice in the course of transmission, and remained there until the making of certain re pairs revealed it It was then put in the mail anew and nothing said about It" St Louis lilobe-Uemo-crat The Ermine. The ermine Is a queer animal. It Is one thing in winter and another thing In summer. That is a strange statement, but it is true, for in winter the animal's fur is as white as snow and is called the ermtaa l'i summer its fur turns reddish brown on the upper part of the body and a light yellow on the lower part; the animal is then known as the stoat This change is quite familiar to naturalists but not to unscientific people, and the ermine and the stoat are, therefore, generally regarded as distinct animals. The fur of the ermine is much val ued and Is in great request. At one time it was a mark of royalty, and the state robes of judges and mag istrates were lined w.th it as an em blem of purity. The ermine is so cunning in its ways that It is almost as dlilicult to catch as it is to 'vat.h a weasel UCP- In fact, about the only way . . ,,., -,,i i, i ... .u .... L., i va .abiivvaj.. it Lieu cue uaiuty, ms- tidious little animal reaches the pjint In its path where the mud is strewn, i4 will lie down and suh;ect Itself to capture and death rather than smirch one of its snow-white iairs. WAITING, ONLV WAITtSO. They had been married but ono shoi t week, and were down by tho soa. For two days ho had beea wandering about aimlessly as one In a dream. The shadow had fallen upon him, an 1 its chill bad touched the gentle heart of the fair, sweet bride. She had watched him, oh, so anxious ly, and had known no peace since tho clammy touch of the shadow had fallen upon them both. This morning be had g)na out to a lonely place on the rocks overlooking tho wide expanse of the silent sea. The cruel green waves came beating in upon tho cold, gray rocks, and they seemed to be sounding his requiem. Far off on tho rolling waves a sail oroke the horizon line, and his listless eyes followed it in its course. Here she found him wrapped in his revery. Sho spoke to him, but ha heed ed her hot. His eyes, were turned seaward as if they would pierce "the vail of distance and carry him on their wings to the un seen shoro beyond. She touched him and he started up, bewildered at the awakening. "Oh, Harold," sho moaned, 'tell mo what is the matter. We were so happy, and you know we were going to Europo on our bridal tour." "Yes, yes," he murmured. "And aro we going, Harold, darling?' she whispered. His hand struck down upon his pock ets hysterically, and once more he looked out upon tho calm sea. "Yes, darling, yes," he answered, taking her to his breast, "just as sooa as It gets dry enough for us to walk." A limp and listless form hung in his arms his bonnie brido had fainted. Detroit Free Press. HlflSBT LOVES C0XFAXY. A good old undertaker named Logan does business up in St. Helena. Meet ing Dr. Dawson Of the village one day, he mechanically inquired about the pub lic health. "It is remarkably good," replied the physician, with something of the pride of a creator; "there is really no sickness in the town." "I hear the same complaint from Saa Francisco," said the good 'undertaker, with a sigh. San Francisco Examiner.
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